Author:	Brown, Claude	Request a photo of this book
Title:	Manchild in the Promise Land (Signed/Inscribed)
Description:	Published by: Macmillan, New York, 1965 Book Condition: VG Jacket Condition: VG- Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Binding: Hard Cover Notes: After being in and out of reform schools and being shot in the stomach, author attended Howard University, and was encouraged by his teachers (among them Toni Morrison) to "write about what you know best". This is a vivid chronicle of author's experiences growing up in Harlem alongside drug dealers, murderers, hustlers, numbers runners and prostitutes. This book has sold over 4 million copies, has been translated into 14 different languages, and has exposed a wide audience to inner-city black culture. 415 pgs., red cloth boards are very lightly rubbed, spine is sun-faded, light foxing to end papers, red, tan and black pictorial DJ is lightly chipped and soiled, a few light moisture stains, This copy has been inscribed to Art Finley a popular radio/television broadcaster in the San Francisco and Vancouver areas- "To Art Finley, with best wishes Claude Brown", internally clean with sound binding Keywords:  Autobiography, Harlem, African-American History, Urban Culture, American History
Item No:	15956
Price:	$750.00
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